Lol I can't believe people still think Sony owns the SM IP.
Sony owns the license to produce live action and animated SM movies that are over 48 minutes long. That's it.
Marvel (and consequently Disney) owns everything else related to the SM IP except for the theme park rights East of the Mississippi in the US and the SM theme park rights in Japan (both licenses are owned by NBCU, i.e. Comcast).
pokoko said:
Ratchet and Clank is a first-party IP. It belongs entirely to Sony. Marvel's deal for Spider-Man probably goes through Sony, meaning it's a Sony game, and then Sony contracted Insomniac to work on it. That means it goes a lot deeper than simple publishing rights, which can expire. |
Basically correct.
| KBG29 said: For the best quality, and biggest return, they should stick with Sony for all Marvel IP. Same should be done with Star Wars. I know some would hate that, just like they hate Disney owning Marvel and Star Wars, but it would be best for business. 3rd party Multi-Platform games cost more, and require sacrifices to run on all platforms. Hopefully we will see Spider-Man 2 and Iron Man exclusively on PS5. |
Unlikely. Avengers and the rumored GoTG have gone to SE and will be multiplatform. Undoubtedly Marvel and Insomniac will work together again, possibly with Sony as the publisher again, but there are some rumors going around on resetera and neogaf that Disney may want to go back to being a game publisher after the smoke clears on the Fox acquisition. If that's the case then it's more likely that Disney buys Insomniac.
Baddman said:
From what I remembered reading. Marvel told Sony they could choose any IP they wanted and insomniac chose Spiderman. So It may just be a 1 game deal for now(just speculating) |
Correct. Marvel did say that the future of Spidey is with Sony and Insomniac, but I doubt they signed an exclusive long term agreement like that. I have no doubt though that short term Insomniac will probably get to pick another Marvel property to work on and they might go for Spidey 2.
